Located at Newport Centre Mall, JCPenny is one of Newport’s most popular department stores. With about 1,100 stores in all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico and Mexico, JCPenney is the second largest department store retailer and the largest catalog merchant in the United States, with licensing agreements for its products throughout the world. The company also runs 49 Renner department stores in Brazil and owns Eckerd Drugstores, one of the largest drugstore chains in the United States, with about 2,600 units in the Southeast, the Northeast, and the Sunbelt.